Boat towed after it takes on water

North County Times -

OCEANSIDE —— Harbor police had to tow a boat back to the harbor
Sunday after the vessel began to take on water, authorities
said.

Harbor Police Cpl. Brain Sundberg said his department received a
distress call around 8:30 a.m. from the owner of a 28-foot Bayliner
called the Mucho Gusto. The owner reported that a coolant hose had
broken, allowing seawater normally used to cool the boat's engine
to flow into the vessel, Sundberg said.

The boat was about a mile and a half southwest of the Oceanside
Harbor at the time, the corporal said.

"At our suggestion, (the boat owner) shut down the engine, which
stopped the leak," Sundberg said. "The leak was kind of temporarily
plugged, and he was towed back to the harbor without any further
incident."

The boat owner and two other people aboard the Mucho Gusto
suffered no injuries as a result of the incident, Sundberg
said.